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#75 [Rev.
13:16] On the hand?
The following article was written
by Dr. John Hinton, Bible Restoration Ministry.
Revelation 13:16
And he causeth all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right
hand, or in their foreheads:
Ever since the RV and the ASV, users of modern
versions have been given the misleading translation of this verse in such a
manner:
"And he causeth all, the small and the
great,
and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond,
that there be given them a mark on their right hand,
or upon their forehead;" Rev. 13:16 ASV
"Also it causes all, both small and great, both
rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on
the right hand or the forehead," Rev. 13:16 RSV
There is only one problem with most of these
versions' treatments of this verse, and that that the mark of the beast is
stated to be on the hand and not in it as the KJV tells us. These two
prepositions are small words, but the error is not a small one at all. Some
translations go so far as to mislead readers by insinuating that the mark is a
tattoo. This is not impossible, since a tattoo is both on the skin and in the
skin, but it is not stated in any Greek text and at best it is a guess. At
worse, it is a lie to misguide those who fall for the new version scam.
The translation "on the hand or forehead" is not hard to understand. The usual
meaning of the preposition epi is most often "on" and it is how most would have
translated this verse at first sight. In fact, if I was seeing the text for the
first time, it is exactly
how I would have translated it. I would have translated it that way because I am
far less of a Greek scholar than the translation team members of the King James
Bible committee, and because I am not used as an instrument of God to preserve
his word in the English language -- I am only a defender of it. On the other
hand, the modern Bible "corrector" thinks that he is superior to the sum and
total of all of these great men, in spite of the fact that his Greek abilities
are dwarfed by the least of the Greek
translators on the KJV committee.
The modern Greek student is little more than a
babe compared to these men who learned the language long before the dumbing down
of education took its toll on today's academy. They spoke the language, were
able to write prose in it, and were entrenched in it. There are a few
universities with classics departments like Bryn Mawr and Berkley in modern
times that have standards of Greek scholarship that are truly outstanding, but
few truly well-rounded students of the language are produced on the whole, and
none on the level of the great scholars of the 17th century. Most seminary
students are sloppy and inexperienced with any Greek other than koine, and could
not form a sentence without errors, even if their vocabularies were sufficient
to do so. They certainly could not write a simple essay in Greek, let alone a
complicated sentence. The majority of those who think that they can correct the
Bible do not even know any Greek at all. There is hardly a church in America
that does not have at least one con artist with meager mental ability who uses
Strong's Concordance to find definitions that will enable him to babble
boastfully how the KJV translators had it wrong. He barely knows his own
language, let alone Greek, but he has learned to use that book, or a similar
one, to convince the gullible and rebellious that he is wise. Romans 1:22 was
written for the likes of such men:
"Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools."
Revelation 13:16 is one of those verses that fakes and second-rate Greek
scholars use to puff themselves up, and it requires only the most elementary
level of study. Yes, indeed, when epi is used as a preposition it is most often
translated as "on" just as all
dictionaries will tell us. I did learn this the very first day that I began
studying koine Greek, and probably learned it the first day that I began
studying Greek twenty some years ago when my focus was on Modern Greek. This is
as basic as it gets, so why do these Bible "correcting" pipsqueaks think that
these great scholars of old, who were far more educated than they will ever be,
did not know the most common meaning of epi? This is not just ignorance, but the
worst kind of arrogance. The fact that they chose
not to translate epi as "on" demonstrates that they knew something the modern
quasi or pseudo-scholar does not know. These 53 men (the 54th died early)
knowingly
translated or approved of the translation of epi as "in" in its context for a
reason.
The preposition epi can also mean in, to, at,
with, along with, and a number of other similar meanings. It must be read in
context before it is translated, and unlike the correctors of today, the KJV
translators were able to do that. They did, and they realized that a xaragma,
which is translated as mark, involves a scratching or etching into the skin.
This, we could imply, would include injections, although the idea of injections
was not known when the text was written. Any philologist of even meager ability
realizes that prepositions cannot be put into neat little boxes. They virtually
never translate perfectly from one language to another. For instance, if we were
to make a word for word translation of "turn the light on" or "turn the light
off" into any foreign language, we would not be understood at all. For another
example, when one learns a preposition in Arabic like 'ala, the meaning of "on"
will be learned first. If we were to try to translate it as "on" in every
instance, we would make a complete mess out of the language, because 'ala means
a whole lot more than just "on", and it frequently requires either a lot of
experience or a lot of thought to discern what it means in a given passage. I am
sure that there is not a language in the world that uses prepositions that does
not have other examples. The translators of old put their discernment to work
when they translated epi; the modern version pseudo-translators did not.
Many other Greek translators, all of whom greatly exceeded the learning of the
modern academic Bible so-called scholar, before and after the King James was
translated, came up with the same conclusion concerning this passage. The
Spanish Reina Vallera,
Italian Diodati, Latin Vulgate, and Ethiopic all agree with the King James.
Reina Valera of 1909 (following earlier
versions)
13:16 Y hac�a que � todos, � los peque�os y grandes,
ricos y pobres, libres y siervos, se pusiese una marca
en su mano derecha, � en sus frentes:
Diodati: Faceva encora che a tutti, piccoli e grandi,
ricchi e poveri, franchi e servi fosse posto un
carattere in su la lor mano destra, o in su le lor
fronti:
Vulgate: et faciet omnes pusillos et magnos et divites
et pauperes
et liberos et servos habere caracter in dextera manu
aut in frontibussuis
Luther's German translation has "an ihre rechte
hand oder an ihre Stirn." The preposition "an" refers to being at, with, near,
on, or in something, and therefore has a broader range of meaning than our
English "in" has, but this translation does not contradict that of the King
James Bible. It does not ay "auf ihre Hand," which would mean "on the hand" as
the NIV, NKJV, and virtually all modern versions say.
The German translation of the so-called Good News Bible, Die Gute Nachricht in
heutigen Deutsch, does precisely that. "...auf ihre rechte Hand oder ihre Stirn
machen."
The ancient French texts are similar. Both the Ostervald and the Martin have "a
la main"
"Et elle faisait que tous, petits et grands,
riches et
pauvres, libres et esclaves, prenaient une marque � la
main droite ou � leurs fronts;"
If the French translaters had meant "on the
hand or forehead" they would have used the preposition "sur" in order to be
precise. This is what the Westcott-Hort-based Louis Segonde does.
"16 Et elle fit que tous, petits et grands,
riches et
pauvres, libres et esclaves, re�ussent une marque sur
leur main droite ou sur leur front,"
The French "� la main" has a range of meanings
very similar to that of the German "an". It means that the mark is at, near,
with, in, or on the hand. Like the German of Luther (and other early German
works) neither ancient French translation contradicts the King James Bible
translation. It is possible that the translators were not sure how to deal with
the mark. After all, they worked on the text long before there was any real clue
as to what is probably meant by the mark. All that they knew is that a xaragma
was carved or engraved into something, or inscribed.
Today, we can be reasonably confident that the mark of the beast will be a
biochip that will be inserted under the skin. Such chips have been injected into
livestock and pets for decades, and it has long been theorized that people are
to be targeted for these chips. There was a time when some naive and ignorant
people guffawed the idea that such tracking devices would ever be placed in
people, but only the most foolish of the willingly ignorant can pretend that it
is not happening now.
The Bible makes it clear that the mark will be used for buying and selling, as
well as for identification. Decades of planning and theorizing have gone into
shifting the economies of the world into cashless societies. Only in a cashless
society where money is intangible and under the control of a central authority
can people be reduced to total livestock. America, including America's
Christians, have allowed our country to be taken over by an international
banking cartel called the Federal Reserve with armed thugs (IRS, BATF, FBI, FEMA,
etc.) that enforce their godless will on the masses through terror. We have been
numbered like prisoners with the Socialist Slavery Number, which some confuse
with social security. The Bill of Rights and Constitution have been null and
voided and the Bible has been removed from the public arena, and has been
replaced with faith-based community organizations and other 501(c)3 government
corporations that have turned away from Christ and turned toward Caesar. We have
allowed devils and degenerates to rule over us, and as a consequence, the
technology for the mark of the beast is ready now for those too weak and
reprobate to take a stand.
ISO 9000 is another clever way our hidden fascist masters are making sure that
we are all employed -- by major corporate slave masters that is. The
International Standard Organization claims to be concerned with protecting the
quality and safety of our workplaces. What it really does is make international
corporate slaves out of all of us by denying work and income to anyone not
participating in their scheme. It also allows an international bankster front
organization to control what we sell, and how and where we market it. It reduces
the quality of products and the quality of working environments because it bogs
down each and every employee with the most complicated, convoluted and
oppressive processes imaginable. In the future, anyone who cannot afford the
huge expense of signing into this oppressive program will be unable to compete
in the global market, and slaves of the ISO system will be told that
they are forbidden from hiring non-ISO workers. Even lawn mowers may be affected
as major corporations start including lawn care in their services. Non-ISO lawn
mowers may be hired in secret, but they will probably have to settle for
considerably less money, or break down and work for a corporation.1
National ID's, or papers as they have been known in other fascist systems like
Nazi Germany, are worldwide now, and are about to become required to buy and
sell
in America. Travel permits with barcodes, digitalized photographs, magnetic
strips, socialist slavery numbers, and biometrics are already ipso facto
national ID's. Debit cards are becoming the norm instead of tangible cash, and
it is only a step away
before they will be replaced with an insertable chip, as is already happening in
some quarters. Companies like Avid, Destron-Fearing, Digital Angel, and Verichip
started out by chipping livestock and pets, but now speak of adding people to
their livestock
list. Right now there is even a plot to chip all domestic animals from chickens
to cows with trackable chips. Not only will this intrude on the independence and
liberty of Americans, but it will make the private raising of livestock
impossible for anyone not owned and controlled by a rich corporation. See
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml for the USDA's own description
of this program.
Also, take a look at what some fascists at
Clemson University are doing to encourage this brave new world of terror and
oppression: http://www.clemson.edu/LPH/nais.htm. For a wealth of information on
the program provided by a group trying to fight this wicked encroachment on our
rights, go to nonais.com.
Meanwhile companies like Monsanto and the Cargill Corporation are patenting
hybrid seeds and criminalizing anyone who grows their plants without permission.
These plants will degenerate into useless weeds if the seeds are collected for
more than a
season or two. So between the ISO, the USDA's NAIS, the major seed
conglomerates, and the international banksters who control these organizations
our entire
food supply is being taken out of our control. This should frighten all of us.
The idea of inserting trackable chips in people is now being brought into the
open. I'll never forget hearing pseudo-conservative Paul Harvey break from his
usual commercial-filled monologue to making a statement that he thought
inserting chips in people
would be a good idea. Of course, he thought it should only be done with "bad"
people, although he did not define who they were. He had nothing to say about
the attack on privacy, independence, freedom, and dignity. I saw two different
60 Minutes hosts, Andy Rooney and Charles Grodin say the exact thing. Like
Harvey, they
had no criticisms, but only good things to say about the idea. Of course, they
were not volunteering for it themselves.
In the May 11, 2002 issue of Time an article called Meet the Chipsons was
published.2 Accompanied by a photograph of a family that looked strikingly braindead was an article describing a boy named Derek who was volunteering to be
chipped. As Time put it:
"He's becoming a cyborg--part man-child,
part machine.
Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the
first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable
computer device called VeriChip."
This company is becoming bolder and bolder with
it plan of inserting chips into people. It is already being done in Brazil, and
Italy where Italian bar flies are being chipped to
spare themselves of the "hassle" of carrying cash into their hangouts. The word "pathetic" just isn't enough. In the Chipsons article not only are we told that
in
the future we will be merged with computers, but that "resistance is futile."
This is a phrase from a Star Trek series in which a fictional culture of people
merged with machines into one mass mind with no individuality, and as a perfect
collective
consciousness devoid of any trace of independence. This phrase sounded ominous coming from the fictional Borg's collective mouths. Unlike the New Age authors
of the Star Trek script, the New World Order advocates at Time thought that it
was something cute and amusing, much as a TV network turned Orwell's fictional
allusion to a nightmare world of cruel and total totalitarianism into a "cute"
TV program about
degenerates, whores, sodomites, and assorted nitwits living in a house together
trying to use deceit to eliminate each other through the watchful eyes of
omnipresent cameras.
Before this braindead family was used to help boil the proverbial frog there was
the experiment of Kevin Warwick in England. "A professor at the University of
Reading in England has had a silicon chip transponder implanted into his arm to
demonstrate how computers and humans might be able to communicate in the future.
Professor Kevin Warwick envisions a world in which humans communicate directly
with computers without extraneous input devices such as mice and keyboards,
and a world in which humans network continually with computers, he said. The
experiment could have wide-ranging implications for employers and for society in
general as humans determine how closely they want to be connected with
computers."2 Wide-ranging implications indeed!
Anyone blind and foolish enough to doubt what is being prepared for them should
look at what Battelle Memorial Institute states in their own literature.
Battelle is the richest research foundation in the world. They have offices,
laboratories, or research
centers in over 100 cities around the world. They are responsible, or share the
responsibility, for an incredible percentage of the technology required to
establish a cashless, socialist, privacy-free, Big Brother society of slavery
and surveillance, such as debit cards, road camera monitoring systems, barcodes
(with their imbedded 666's), GPS, and insertable biochips. Battelle publishes
ten and twenty year forecasts every year or so. These forecasts should be read
by anyone concerned with the future.
In their forecast for 2006, which was prepared in 1996, they state that
"Electronic money will be used for everything from buying soda in a vending
machine
to making an international transaction over your computer. Pockets will rarely
jingle in ten years as credit card-sized smart cards begin to replace cash, as
well as house and car keys." Doesn't this sound charming. Not only will your
money be reduced to
intangible blips of light on a computer screen that are under complete control
of your unseen masters, but they will have control of the access to your house
and
car. Not only that, but they hint that they intend on eventually using
insertable chips in our bodies in another entry:
"Smart maps and tracking devices. Getting
"there"
will be decidedly easier with the widespread use of
Global Positioning Systems-"smart" maps that will show
travelers, boaters, and hikers their exact position
and direction. Global positioning systems also will be
used to help prevent crime by tracking the exact
location of cars and other valuables. People also will
be able to track the exact location of their children
and even their pets."3
There was a time when insertable biochip
companies like Destron-Fearing and Avid claimed that it was only livestock and
pets who would be chipped, never people.
They were lying, and Battelle makes it clear that chipping humans has always
been the goal, above that of animals. Guess who the livestock and pets are?
Battelle also informs us that in the future we will not own our appliances.
Corporations will not only control all of our wealth, lives, information,
children, but our possessions as well. Independence will be impossible.
Furthermore, monitoring devices may be inserted into your appliances and you
would be vandalizing them if you removed them, since you do not own them.
"Never-owned products. Major household
appliances, such as furnaces, air conditioners, washers, dryers, and water
heaters will be leased instead of purchased. This trend will be spurred by
environmental concerns and regulations, cost, and the increasing speed of
technology, which causes products to become obsolete quicker."4
Battelles "Breakthroughs for Future Household
Products by 2007" gives more of the same, but with a few more details concerning
tying us up with computers, personalized identification (i.e. slave cards and
chips), monitoring systems (they claim for
health), and virtual reality to keep us distracted from what is being done to
us, and from reality itself.
"Highly Miniaturized Communication and
Electronic
Products. In ten years, we will have developed
wristwatch-size phones and highly specialized,
hand-held, wireless computers that will help us
perform a variety of day-to-day activities, from
managing your banking and investments to planning your
weekend entertainment."5
"Virtual Reality Products. Virtual
projections and sound environments will be used to enhance computer games,
music systems, video entertainment systems, and exercise equipment. We will
see a convergence of home entertainment, information, and well care."6
In Battelle's forecast for 2008 we are told
that we will be even more wired to a central control center.
"Convergence of Technology in the Home. In
the past,
we separated our home life from work and from
shopping. In the next ten years, the home will be the
place of convergence for private and public lives.
Increasingly, the home will be a place for us to work,
shop, get an education, and enjoy entertainment. The
biggest technological change occurring in our personal
lives will be the convergence of telecommunications,
entertainment, networking, education information
access, and computing power into the home. The
technology challenge is how to empower and protect
individuals in their own homes."7
"Micro-Security. The Cold War has died away, along
with a great deal of the world's fear of nuclear
holocaust; yet, in the wake of car-jackings, gang
violence, and terrorist bombings in New York, Oklahoma
City, and Atlanta, many people feel no safer than they
did 10-15 years ago. Technology's security challenge
will shift from national security--protecting nations
from invading armies or missiles--to personal and
community security. We will develop technology-based
methods to keep us protected from crime and
terrorism."8
Battelle, true to their Orwellian ways, not only has altered the above quoted
item, but it originally appeared in their forecast for 2007 forecast. The
uncleansed version ended with the following words:
"we might want those satellites to keep
track of our
children on their way home from school."
It is hard to say why they felt it necessary to
alter this entry when they are so very up front about their intentions to
encourage placing chips under our skin in other
places.
"Omnipresent Computing. Computers will be
everywhere.
We will be in constant contact with very miniature,
wireless, highly mobile, powerful, and highly
personalized computing with network access. Such
computers may first appear on the market as watches or
jewelry with the power of a computer and cellular
phone. Later, we will have computers embedded in our
clothing and possibly implanted under our skin."9
Many other details of our future nightmare
police state are given in their INNOVATIONS IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE BY
2012:
"Advanced Detection and Tracking Systems:
The security
of American borders and transportation centers has
improved greatly, but will improve even more. We will
have non-invasive biological, chemical, and weapon
detectors as reliable and easy to use as x-rays or
metal detectors today. We will see integrated sensors
and detectors at airports, for example, which will
identify illegal drugs and potential weapons of
terrorism as quickly as a Geiger counter picks up
radiation. "Early detection of biological weapons is
absolutely critical to the success of American
security in the years to come, and it's an area where
much R&D is being done," said Steve Kelly, Senior Vice
President and general manager of Battelle's Defense
Systems. Once identified, there is a need to
accurately track potentially dangerous objects and
people. Today, optical scanners, bar codes and
computers provide excellent tracking in commercial
markets. By 2012, we will see a new generation of
tracking with radio frequency identification tags,
homing devices, cameras, and global position systems
(GPS) for tracking weapons and other potentially
threatening materials."10
Who will be defined as a dangerous person in
the NWO of 2012? Those who are foolish enough to let a godless government trick
or force them into taking dangerous and potentially deadly inoculations, will
likely be foolish enough to allow chips to be injected into themselves at the
same time. Will they even be told if they are being injected. According to the
information of Avid: the animal doesn't even usually know that he
has been injected with a chip at all. Battelle, again, plays on the Orwellian
fabricated terrorism scheme to scare the gullible into rushing to inoculation
centers.
"Universal Inoculation: Much fear exists
today that
bacteria and viruses may be used for terrorism or
combat against the U.S. Biological weapons were
central issues in recent Middle Eastern conflicts. A
key protective measure against biological threats of
the future will be the universal inoculation. One, or
a small number of inoculations, not necessarily shots,
will protect large numbers of people from multiple
pathogens. By 2012, based on a more thorough
understanding of the genetics behind disease, we'll be
able to guard people's good health against dozens of
bacteria and viruses."11
The mass use of insertable chips is likely to
come after the official national ID is brought into being in America. This card
will doubtlessly be merged with a debit card. The first place such a card was
used in America was with the military. They called it the MARC card. Christians
in the military complained about the obvious biblical allusion being made by
this name so they changed it to R.A.P.I.D. A short time later they
changed the name back to MARC. That name must have been very important to those
behind it. The first university to use such a card was Ohio Dominican, a
Catholic college in Columbus. These cards were used as ID's, library cards, copy
cards, and debit cards, and were used at pop machines. The company's name was
Cybermark, and was formed as a partnership between Fanny Mae (J.P.
Morgan/Federal Reserve), Huntington
National Bank of Ohio, and Battelle Memorial Institute.
Everyone seems to want to give us a card today that monitors all of our
transactions. Kroger, for example, will charge a much higher price to anyone who
does not
want to use one of their intrusive cards. Fingerprinting is already beginning to
replace cards in some places. I have already seen banks with devices that read
the fingers of customers in order to make transactions called One Touch. A huge
percentage of
companies no longer allow employees to handle their own paychecks, and will only
pay them through direct deposit. There are even Antichrist abominations
masquerading as churches that extort tithes from their congregation through
direct deposit. These 501(c)3 IRS-owned corporation chairmen are more like New
World Order criminals than pastors. Such pastors will undoubtedly be delighted
to take the next step and
advise their people to take
a convenient chip in their hands, just like the four-legged and winged livestock
will likely be chipped before the two-legged variety.
After all, they will say, "the mark of the beast is supposed to be on the hand
or forehead, or it will be a tattoo. It won�t be in the hand or forehead."
Even more will ignore the further warning that
some may go along with the Antichrist system without an actual mark, but by
taking the number or name of the beast,
however, that will be a future essay topic. The users of texts like the NIV will
be among the first to become part of the system. The NIV, which is the largest
selling "Bible" on the market, has not only changed the mark to one that is on
the hand or
forehead, but it has removed the Antichrist entirely by calling the number 666
man's number, removed the name Lucifer entirely, removed the warning about the
Beast's name or number, and has called the future reformation during Christ's
reign on earth the New Order! The Antichrist will give them the Rock and Roll
and other forms of entertainment that they crave, and their perversion of
scripture will not warn them.
I could continue for hundreds of pages and not exhaust the subject of
enslavement technology, but I will force myself to stop here. Everywhere we look
we see evidence that the mark of the beast will be an inserted mark as the KJV
warns us. The KJV and other early translators would never have foreseen that
such technology would come into being, but they were still inspired to put
together a translation that was prophetic. It should be added that if the mark
were a tattoo, the KJV would still be correct. A tattoo is both on and in the
skin. The modern version committees are the product of New Agers, Luciferians,
witches, Darwinists, Marxists, abortion supporters, and an
assortment of other degenerates, apostates, and seekers of filthy lucre. It
should not require much discernment to know which text to follow.
notes:
1 http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
2
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,214099,00.html
3
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/28/armchip.idg/
4 http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/innovations.stm
5 ibid
6 ibid
7 http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/challenges.stm
8 Ibid
9 ibid
10 ibid
11 http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/defense.stm
Your servant in Christ,
John Hinton, Ph.D.
Bible Restoration Ministry
A ministry seeking the translating and reprinting of
KJV equivalent Bibles in all the languages of the
world.
jhinton@post.harvard.edu
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